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Photo credit: Manuel Geissinger by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Amazon wants to build a huge data center in Warrenton Town, Virginia, but apparently to do so Amazon...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This tweet from MIT’s Lincoln Lab describes the development of a new type of propeller, in what mathematicians call a toroidal shape, that should be quieter than standard propellers. Drone noise...
Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Quiet Coalition’s John Drinkwater wrote a well-researched, thoughtful article for the January 2023 issue of The Hearing Journal advocating for silent options when waiting on hold. As...
Photo credit: Robert Sullivan has dedicated this photo to the public domain by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition At the recent Acoustical Society of America meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, I attended a session on measuring aircraft noise. Several of the...
Photo credit: Andrea Piacquadio by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies That noisy neighbors are “the most annoying sound to deal with” is no surprise to me. In my position as...
Photo credit: Anna Shvets by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I was surprised by this article on Healio reporting that orthopedic surgeons risk noise-induced hearing loss in the operating room, but then smiled to myself as I realized I shouldn’t have been...
Photo credit: Riccardo by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Now that the soundscapes have for the most part returned to pre-pandemic form, Rob Walker, writing for the...
Photo credit: Karl Solano by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Quiet Coalition’s Jamie Banks, PhD, MSc, who is also founder and president of TQC’s parent organization, Quiet Communities, Inc. https://quietcommunities.org is one of the experts quoted in...
Photo credit: Q K from Pixabay by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition When a reader sent a question about sound to The Conversation’s Curious Kids column, editors turned to environmental epidemiologist Erica D. Walker, PhD, to serve as an expert....